MOSCOW, June 22 (RIA Novosti) - Mexican President Vicente Fox wants an early Christmas present from Russian President Vladimir Putin. He wants a pair of boots.
"When I arrived in Moscow the day before yesterday, I was met by the guards of honor who represented three branches of the armed forces. My eye caught the wonderful boots they were wearing," Vicente Fox said at a news conference here Wednesday.
He said he assumed the boots were typically worn by Russian Cossacks, the mobile Russian and Ukrainian military units famous for being the vanguards of exploration and conquest in all the borderlands of the Russian Empire.
At his Kremlin meeting with Putin afterwards, Fox asked Putin for a pair as a souvenir.
He said Putin promised to bring the boots to the upcoming G8 summit in Scotland in July.
"I am now asking him in public to remember his promise," Fox joked.
